Hot/Cold Food Sorting
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Categorisation is an important skill for younger/SEN pupils to develop. This resource aims to develop categorisation skills as well as to encourage oral language. This sorting activity focuses on hot and cold food/drink. It would also be suitable for a class working on a restaurant Aistear theme.
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Alphabetical Order Ladder 01
This resource is aimed at giving pupils practice of ordering words by alphabetical order. It has a fruit and vegetable theme. There are four different sets of words to place in order, based only on the first letter of the word.
Laminate all pages in the resource. Leave page 1 intact and cut up the words on pages 2-5 into cards.
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Book Review: The Midnight Carnival
I recently read “The Midnight Carnival” by Erica Mc Gann. It is a very detailed book about six teenage girls, all of whom study the art of witchcraft. The girls’ names were Grace, Jenny, Delilah, Adie, Una and Rachel. The story is mainly about the girls going to this new carnival in town and not knowing what they were getting themselves into. The carnival was very creepy. At the carnival the rides were all rusty and rickety. Something strange was going on there.
It turned out that an evil sorceress, Murdrina, gave the carnival a straw doll. The doll looked normal until you went near her; then it looked like a bunch of wriggling worms. read more…
Peg Months of the Year
This peg maths resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils. It’s focus is on the consolidation of the order of the months of the year. It consists of 24 question cards. The pupil looks at the months on the left of each card (or a teacher/SNA may read it to them) – one month is missing, identified by the question mark. There are three possible answers on the right of the card. The pupil then places a clothes peg on the month that they think is missing from the sequence on the left.
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Peg Analogue-Digital Matching: O’Clock
This resource is aimed at junior/middle pupils or SEN pupils at the beginning of work on digital/analogue time. It is based on reinforcing the concept of “o’clock”. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into 12 separate cards. Pupils should read the time on the clock on the left side of each card and place a peg on the correct answer on the right side of the card, thereby matching the analogue time with the digital time.
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Peg Days of the Week 02
This peg maths resource is aimed at pupils in infant/junior classes or SEN pupils. It’s focus is on the consolidation of the order of the days of the week. It consists of a fourteen question cards. The pupil looks at the days on the left of each card (or a teacher/SNA may read it to them) – one day is missing, identified by the question mark. There are three possible answers on the right of the card. The pupil then places a clothes peg on the day that they think is missing from the sequence on the left.
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Days of the Week
This resource consists of flashcards of the days of the week to help younger pupils learn the order of the days. They are colour coded to match the Peg Days of the Week resource.
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Volunteering With Global Schoolroom
Global Schoolroom is an NGO that currently runs teacher training programmes in a remote region in NE India with the aim of improving education standards through a mutually beneficial scheme. Global Schoolroom recruits Irish teachers on a voluntary basis from September until mid-November each year. Those applying commit to training one weekend a month from January until July, when they fly to India for a month. read more…
Hospital Matching 01
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils with speech and language difficulties. It assumes an ability to read. The hospital vocabulary would also need to be taught in advance. Its aim is to assess whether pupils can match the hospital-related words with the appropriate images.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut up the images into 12 separate cards. Cut up the hospital words on page 3.
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Book Review: Conor’s Caveman
“Conor’s Caveman” is an enthralling book written by Alan Nolan. It is about a young boy named Conor who is part of a team of scouts. Every weekend the scouts go camping at different destinations. Conor is so shy it cripples him. Conor only has one friend called Charlie, who is the toughest girl he has ever seen.
One day the scouts are asked to go camping at Lough Dan, which is a mountain in Wexford. It is an extremely dark, damp, cool day but the scouts do not want to waste a single day and plan to go ahead with their trip. read more…